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Man, 5-year-old child hospitalized after Lauderhill shooting

LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) - A man and a 5-year-old child have been hospitalized after a shooting at a Lauderhill apartment building.

Lauderhill Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene along the 3100 block of Northwest 19th Street, just before 7 p.m., Wednesday.

According to Lauderhill Fire Rescue Chief Jeffrey Levy, one adult and one child were shot.

Relative Calvinette Lemons said the shooting happened in a stairwell at the complex.

“I ran outside, and that’s when my kids ran up to me and said that my brother-in-law Demetrius got shot and my little cousin Aiden got shot,” Lemons said. “I kept crying asking if both of them were all right.”